From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Dalbec Subject: Re: getting UUID and label of a filesystem Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:35:10 -0500 Message-ID: <3FB2370E.4000102@ysu.edu> References: <3FAAB330.5040503@nrao.edu> <1068152277.2556.13.camel@redeeman.linux.dk> <1068152634.2455.37.camel@dragonball> <3FAFEE88.3040002@ysu.edu> <20031110134246.N10197@schatzie.adilger.int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20031110134246.N10197@schatzie.adilger.int> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Andreas Dilger Cc: Brian Tinsley , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Andreas Dilger wrote: > "mount" has not been updated to use libblkid. I had always intended on > doing that, but it was never in the top 10 on my todo list. I had agreement > in principle from Andries Brouwer to use a libblkid in mount instead of > having a duplicate set of LABEL/UUID parsing code there, but just lacked > the time/incentive to do that part. > > It would probably benefit all reiserfs users to get this working, so that > you can finally mount reiserfs filesystems by LABEL/UUID, so if someone > has some time and wants to contribute back to reiserfs this is a fairly > easy project (not kernel hacking ;-). Brian Tinsley wrote: > I use labels on SuSE with no problem. Could be an incompatibility with > your mount command, but I'm not sure. Has SuSE already updated the mount command to use libblkid then? Or did they insert duplicate LABEL/UUID parsing code for ReiserFS? John